Felix Adler Quotes

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler

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• We continue to be bullish on China.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • China
  • Continue
  • Bullish

• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Lost

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Acting
  • Kid

• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Strong

• Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Music
  • Live
  • Money

• I have no privacy anymore.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Privacy
  • Anymore

• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Problem
  • Color
  • Line

• It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Small
  • First
  • Company

• Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Law
  • Police
  • Protect

• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Character
  • Together

• I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Help
  • Support
  • Emotionally

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Born
  • India

• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Blind

• We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Action
  • Learn
  • Seeing

• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Start

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Country
  • Best
  • Like